HOPE MILLS — The Scotland High football team punched its ticket to the East Regional championship game for the fourth straight year by defeating No. 2 South View 28-18 in the third round on Friday […]
LAURINBURG — Scotland County’s AAU youth football team is heading to nationals in a couple of weeks. The Sandhills Seahawks 8U football team will play in the AAU national tournament that begins on Dec. 11 […]
I sat in front of my computer Wednesday morning for what seemed like hours … stunned. It had been months since I’d received an email from my high-school buddy and college roommate. He’s lived outside […]
The verdict is in on President Trump’s 2017 corporate tax cut: It didn’t work. The tax cut’s backers said reducing the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%would increase the average household income by $4,000, […]
LAURINBURG — The Scotland County Health Department will hold a candlelight vigil on Tuesday in observance of World Aids Day, which is Sunday. The event will take place between 5:30 and 7 p.m. in the […]
LAURINBURG — For the second straight year, State Rep. Garland Pierce (D-Scotland County) will be hosting a food distribution for senior citizens and needy families just in time for the Christmas season. On Tuesday, Dec. […]
Scotland County had a record collection of 2,041 Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes this year. I want to thank each and everyone who participated in this great opportunity to provide and show love and hope to […]
History in many communities, towns, cities and counties can often be lost in an effort to modernize in the name of progress. That makes the writings of historians and the photographs by those who try […]
MORGANTON — A convenience store clerk in North Carolina staged a robbery with her boyfriend at the business, used the money to buy rings hours later and made a video of their engagement at a […]
ROCKINGHAM — Lindsey Steadman, owner of Lindsey’s Discount Tire on Biltmore Drive in Rockingham, traveled up to Asheville one weekend about 30 years ago for some “junk shopping” and came across a man who was […]
MAXTON — A Maxton teenager is charged with possessing and intending to sell cocaine. According to the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office, Chaydlan Blake Locklear, 18, also is charged with maintaining a drug vehicle and possession […]
RED SPRINGS — A Red Springs lawman is walking readers through what he calls his “most memorable case” in a book titled “Monster Eyes.” “I have investigated a lot of cases in my career but […]
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